The Difference Between Progressive Unfolding and Retroactive Telling

i think most people would say it's a politically conservative gesture to always tell history from the present, right? Like, isn't that the critique of stalanism? Right? But i think really, even though stahlan obviously abused it, there's still something radical in that moment. It's through that dramatically different retelling that we register the break that occurs within history. Otherwise, if it's just pure evolution, which is, i think, how history is taught in school,. Its taught us this pure linear anotia, a linear notion of causality - but retr retroactivity says, this happened, but a, then this happened, and that forces it to stop